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urbz' publication on Dharavi published by Strelka Press

Housing must be seen as a process rather than a product: its values lie in the relationship and inter-action between the actors, their activities and the produced house.

While residents may live here and work elsewhere, this neighbourhood also shows a high level of its own economic activities.

Future fitting is a high-tech, forward-looking, and design-orientated version of “retrofitting”, which can be applied in growing cities from Shenzhen to Mumbai. MoMA workshop notes.

In Rio “pacification” is a code word to describe the invasion of neighborhoods by squads of policemen walking around their guns pulled out, ready to shoot. 

Does Dharavi reveal a contemporary urban model that defies functional urbanism?

Architecture relies on inputs of the occupants to incrementally design a house extension in Sakinaka. 

What does the mutation of colonial Bombay into global Mumbai mean for architectural forms and public life?

Can design input be streamed into a process rather than given as a starting point to the construction process? 

Where affordable housing is scarce but people have tweaked the system and the land to achieve the best possible results in the given circumstances.